Careful Words

more (n.)

more (adv.)

more (adj.)

Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed:

Who does the best his circumstance allows

Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more.

Edward Young (1684-1765): Night thoughts. Night ii. Line 90.

  It is more blessed to give than to receive.

New Testament: Acts xx. 35.

Contented wi' little, and cantie wi' mair.

Robert Burns (1759-1796): Contented wi' Little.

More frayd then hurt.

John Heywood (Circa 1565): Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.

"Poor deer," quoth he, "thou makest a testament

As worldlings do, giving thy sum of more

To that which had too much."

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 1.

A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

Where more is meant than meets the ear.

John Milton (1608-1674): Il Penseroso. Line 120.

More is thy due than more than all can pay.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 4.

  Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is, more knave than fool.

Christopher Marlowe (1565-1593): The Jew of Malta. Act ii.

More matter for a May morning.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.

More matter, with less art.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

But to my mind, though I am native here

And to the manner born, it is a custom

More honoured in the breach than the observance.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 4.

I have touched the highest point of all my greatness;

And from that full meridian of my glory

I haste now to my setting: I shall fall

Like a bright exhalation in the evening,

And no man see me more.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.

  Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is, more knave than fool.

Christopher Marlowe (1565-1593): The Jew of Malta. Act ii.

I am a man

More sinn'd against than sinning.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Lear. Act iii. Sc. 2.

  "It is more than a crime; it is a political fault,"—words which I record, because they have been repeated and attributed to others.

Joseph Fouché (1763-1820): Memoirs of Fouché.

To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little

More than a little is by much too much.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 2.

More is thy due than more than all can pay.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 4.

A little more than kin, and less than kind.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

Is she not more than painting can express,

Or youthful poets fancy when they love?

Nicholas Rowe (1673-1718): The Fair Penitent. Act iii. Sc. 1.

Be the day never so long,

Evermore at last they ring to evensong.

John Heywood (Circa 1565): Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,

Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 5.

I dare do all that may become a man;

Who dares do more is none.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 7.